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馃殌 [Feature] Create a pinned Post for administration

Created by: Tirokk

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馃殌 Feature

Feature: Pin a post
  As an admin
  I want to pin a post so that it always appears at the top
  In order to make sure all network users read it - e.g. notify people about security incidents, maintenance downtimes

Design & Layout

Screenshot - 2019-10-17T005347 639

Additional context

Limitation of one pinned post maximum: We have evidence from the legacy alpha, that reaching all users is a feature that gets abused for marketing. On legacy alpha, it was the system notifications - originally intended to be rarely used for exceptional situations like planned downtimes - which got heavily abused for marketing purposes. Pinning a post is great for the admin but gives terrible user experience.

Therefore, we decided to go with a limitation of one pinned post max at the same time. That will leave enough space on the index page for the actual (desired) content and also create an incentive to think before you pin a post (because you have only one).

Database: A PINNED relation with a property pinnedAt should point from this admin to all its pinned Posts. We could then order by pinnedAt on the post and not run into any performance issues as we do with "Most popular" or "Most commented" orderings. The pinnedAt would be null for all unpinned posts and they would come last.